Caughnawagas who visited him at Newport

following words: "The France, your father, has not

in the

king of

forgotten his children.

As a token of

I have presented gifts to He learned your deputies in his name. with concern, that many nations, deceived by the English, who were his enemies, had attacked and lifted up the hatchet against his good and faithful allies, the United States. He has desired to tell you, that he is a firm and faithful friend

remembrance,

Mohawks ; besides,

they were

to all the friends of

America, and a decided

its

enemy to

all

foes.

He hopes

that all his children, whom he loves sincerely, will take part with their in the war against the English."

father

" The worst circumstance is that these

people have of late

become more powerful by alliances, and the Six

Nations less,

so that their authority begins to be dis

advantage." Johnson Manuxxn, Nov. 29, 1772. This patent covered all the land lying between the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, extending from Coic falls, near the juncat

puted

scripts,

to the third, or as Baker's falls, on the Hudson, and contained about seven huntion of those streams, it

is

now

called,

dred thousand acres of land.

of Johnson, u, 299.

Stone's Life

OF HUDSON'S RI7ER.

more immediately under the control of the English. The Mohawks had a blood alliance with Johnson the Oneidas and ;

Tuscaroras had

submitted

themselves

almost

entirely to

the

guidance of the English ministers who had located among them, and their every-day associations were of a different nature from those of their